Quotes About Renewal

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation."

Authentic grief is humbling; it causes the ego to face forces that are much greater than it can even imagine and it teaches us how to find gain in loss. With authentic grief, then, our profane wound becomes a sacred wound, permitting us to molt out of the cocoon into a wholly new life. Going through the wound like a gateway, we emerge transformed

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

Jesus Christ is able to untangle all the snarls in your soul, to banish all your complexes, and to transform even your fixed habit patterns, no matter how deeply they are etched in your subconscious.

And the reason the thoughts kept coming back to me was that I kept turning their sin over in my mind. And so I discovered another of God's principles: We can trust God not only for our emotions but also for our thoughts. As I asked Him to renew my mind, He also took away my thoughts.

Yes, it is a high price, but it has been paid. It is wonderful to be able to surrender to Him, who bought us. With body, soul, and spirit. And to lose your life for Him. It means you gain your life.

She supposed that's what grace was—a second chance that isn't deserved.

There's no expiration date on second chances.

Every living thing has the same wish to flourish again and again.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.

When you cry out to God for forgiveness, he doesn't remember your sins. They are gone. Forgiven. Washed away. And forgotten. In the same way that the coal removed Isaiah's guilt and sin, the blood of Jesus takes away ours.

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

Con la ayuda de Dios, puedes transformar tu mente. Puedes dejar de creer las mentiras que has abrazado por mucho tiempo. Puedes dar fin al círculo vicioso de pensamientos que te destruyen a ti y a otros. Puedes permitir que Dios renueve tu mente y la sature con su inmutable verdad. Puedes permitir que los pensamientos de Dios lleguen a ser tus pensamientos.

God wants to renew our hearts and minds and to send us into his world as lights shining in the darkness. Like Peter, we can become convinced of the truth: namely, that we are not our sins. And we're also not what others have done to us.

Once a broken bone heals, it is often strongest at the point of the fracture. In the same way, God can take the shame of past failures and amazingly redirect their outcomes toward your future success.

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.